Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.